Interpersonal communication and gender in the ICT profession

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-56

  Kirlidog, Melih ^a   Aykol, Meric ^b   Gulsecen, Sevinc ^c  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Turkish Informatics Association   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Data mining; Education; Employment; Industries; Probability density function; Software; Springs

Indexed keywords

GENERAL POPULATIONS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES; INTER-PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS; SOFTWARE; SPRINGS; USER INVOLVEMENTS;

COMMUNICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMPLOYMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 64249136103     PISSN: 02780097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2009.931997     Document Type: Article

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